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> An American cannot even eat on $2k/year Baloney. It is easy to stay under $1.5K/year per person and that includes a pound of fresh fruit/veg each day. I've never even tried to save money either; no coupon clipping, no buying in bulk. Learn to cook. With a small amount of practice you'll be "fast enough" too, where it'll take less time for you to cook/clean than to eat out.
Where do you live? Even in little towns and with shared housing the rent is going to be >$10k/year. In larger cities you can forget about it. Detroit is probably the best real estate bargain in America, and you can't live there on $2k/year.
Um what? We are talking about eating. You know, just food expenses. No one eats real estate unless you are Godzilla.